{"id":285697,"date":"2026-02-07T13:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T13:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/285697\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T13:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T13:00:10","slug":"a-waste-of-my-time-glen-hansards-brother-decries-council-for-twice-refusing-him-permission-to-retain-property-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/285697\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A waste of my time\u2019 \u2013 Glen Hansard\u2019s brother decries council for twice refusing him permission to retain property extension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Neighbours complained about alleged anti-social behaviour by tenants in house owned by Gary Hansard\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gary Hansard is the elder brother of Oscar-winning musician and homelessness activist Glen Hansard\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Gary Hansard.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Gary Hansard is the elder brother of Oscar-winning musician and homelessness activist Glen Hansard<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Landlord and musician Gary Hansard, the elder brother of Oscar-winning songwriter Glen Hansard, accused a local authority of \u201cwasting my time and money\u201d after it twice refused him retention permission for an unauthorised extension he built.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Mr Hansard has been locked in a planning dispute after neighbours raised concerns about development at a property he owns in Oldbridge Park, Lucan, Co Dublin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Neighbours complained about alleged anti-social behaviour by tenants in house owned by Gary Hansard Gary Hansard is the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[15008,93,807,3662,61,60],"class_list":["post-285697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-amy-molloy","tag-entertainment","tag-housing","tag-housing-crisis","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}